WWE Backlash 2017 Results

Here are your quick and dirty, editorial-free WWE Backlash 2017 results. The Smackdown-exclusive WWE Network event was headlined by a WWE Championship match between Randy Orton and Jinder Mahal, as well as the main roster debut of Shinsuke Nakamura and matches for the United States and Smackdown Tag Team Championships.

Be back here tomorrow for the full Best and Worst of WWE Backlash ’17 column.

1. Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Dolph Ziggler. This was Nakamura’s main-roster in-ring debut. Ziggler dominated much of the match and hit a Zig Zag, but only got two. Nakamura came back with a Kinshasa to win the match.

2. Smackdown Tag Team Championship Match: The Usos (c) defeated Breezango. Tyler Breeze was “deep undercover” during the match, dressing as both a janitor and an old woman. The Usos pinned Fandango after tripping him on the top rope and hitting him with a superkick.

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Jinder winning is what’s best for business. Those global dollar$ will make the $hareholder$ happy! Now can we get a 3MB reunion celebration on Tuesday?!? I know different shows and all. But hey as we all learned anythings possible in the wwe! – In my JR voice haha

I completely agree that they didn’t even come close to building Jinder for the belt. But, at least he had something going into the match. Whether it heat just for the sake of not belonging in that title spot to begin with, I feel it’s better than “guy who literally looks as bored as can be, but has a REALLY over finisher!!!” Just my meaningless option though…..

I don’t think I have ever been able to stay awake during a Randy Orton match. The only exception that comes to mind is vs Brock last year, and that’s only because the match was something like 30 seconds long.

Suck it up, buttercup. He’s your WHC and you should respect him. That’s a joke just like Jinder’s win is but in reality, Orton doesn’t need the belt and this gets it off him allowing them to put the belt on someone like AJ in the near future without doing AJ v Orton just yet.

WWE is so desperate to raise the prestige of their mid-card titles they are torpedoing their top titles in order to do it. The evidence? They made Owens look like a complete tool almost the entire time he held the Universal title, not being able to win clean. Goldberg’s reign was a joke, and Brock has been gone for two months since winning.
Bray dropped the WWE title to Randall in the worst match on Wrestlemania, never got a rematch, then Orton drops it to Jinder fucking Mahal?

Meanwhile the IC title and the US title are being contested by guys with Main Event talent…I’m not much of a tinfoil hat guy. This is as close as I’ll get.